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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulGovernment/Top SecretFalcon Heavy · USSF-52
Launched 2023-12-29 01:07 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Elliptical Orbit
Landed
B1064 Landed
The first stage landed at Landing Zone 1, on its 5th flight.
Worldwide
219th
orbital launch attempt in 2023
SpaceX
97th
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
13th
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
48 d 23 h
since the pad's previous launch
It is the seventh flight of the X-37B program. United States Air Force Orbital Test Vehicle is built by Boeing. It's an uncrewed 5000 kg, 8.8 m-long reusable mini-spaceplane capable of autonomous re-entry and landing.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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scheduled
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Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Weather now 90% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Weather 80% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Refined launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updated target T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Rescheduled for December 29 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Launch delayed indefinitely pending system checkouts and range availability.
Jay
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Updated weather forecast.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Delayed by a day to December 14 UTC, weather 40%
Nosu
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New weather forecast.
Cosmic_Penguin
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24 hour delay due to ground issue.
Jay
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Weather 85% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Adjusting T-0
SwGustav
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Livestream has started
Launch Library 2
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Weather 75%
Nosu
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Delayed by a day
Nosu
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Weather 40% GO.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Updating launch window
Nosu
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Added launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting December 10
Nosu
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No longer scheduled on December 7.
Cosmic_Penguin
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Targeting December 7
Nosu
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NET December 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET Q4 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET September 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
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NET July 7
Nosu
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Targeting June 23
Nosu
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NET October 2022
Nosu
Height
70m
Diameter
12.2m
To low Earth orbit
63,800kg
Liftoff thrust
22,819kN
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